Scattered Names
Names that appear in the records, disappear, and come back — never in continuous use, and never quite gone either. A gap can mean nobody was given the name that decade, or that too few were for it to be published; both say the same thing about how rare it has always been.
Every name here is placed by how its recent years in the birth records compare with its
earlier ones — so the list moves as the records do.
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Summer Summer is a girl's name of Old English origin taken from the season, from sumor.Girl English #152 in US
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Jayce Jayce is a boy's name of modern American coinage, a respelling of Jason or a stretched form of Jay.Boy Modern coinage #167 in US
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Beckham Beckham is a boy's name of Old English origin meaning "homestead by the stream."Boy English #168 in US
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Sutton Sutton is a name of Old English origin meaning "southern settlement."Unisex English #181 in US
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Wren Wren is a name of Old English origin taken from the bird, from wrenna.Unisex English #231 in US
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Bodhi Bodhi is a boy's name of Sanskrit origin meaning "awakening" or "enlightenment."Boy Sanskrit #265 in US
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Cash Cash is a boy's name of English origin meaning a maker of boxes or cases.Boy English #287 in US
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Miley Miley is a girl's name best known from Miley Cyrus, whose own was a nickname from smiley.Girl English #338 in US
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Malia Malia is a girl's name of Hawaiian origin, the Hawaiian form of Mary.Girl Hawaiian #350 in US
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A style is our reading of a name. A decade is the register — the names children were actually given, in order, with the counts.